Fish Stocking

I took a day to work with the fisheries folks to stock some local lakes. This is Robinson Lake. It is much bigger that this as it goes around the corner where most of the lake is and a compground. The lake is only 2 miles south of Canada!

Ya gotta open the valves on the tanker truck. There they go, out with the flow.
Wheee!
Till they are all gone.
Whoa, like where are we?

They were all perddy Rainbow trout.


The tank was actually split into a front and back tank and we wanted to place half of the second tank at Robinson also, and the rest at Sinclair lake, so a few were netted out of the second tank and thrown in.

Here is the front tank full. There were 1,500 fish aboard!


Here is the back tank after we emptied it. The lid lets the water out. The blue and white filter things release oxygen into the water from the oxygen tanks on the back of the truck.

Baby Blues

While I'm on the subject, here are the sweet soulful eyes of my baby!

Or crazy eyes.

Baby Browns

I didn't think you could get cuter than a puppy...but you can!
This little baby bear has the sweetest baby brown eyes! All sweet and sad. Yes, his mom was shot during spring season bear hunt. It's illigal to shoot a sow with cubs, but how could anyone really know for sure! Anyway, this hunter felt bad anough to risk getting in trouble and reported it to the Conservation Officer. They tranquilized the little guy in the tree. I had to drive him down to Hayden Lake and drop him off at a wildlife rehabilitation center. Just soo young, and tiny.

BUT...don't let those baby browns fool you! He rushed at me several times, with his arms above his head, all growls and piss! Just to show me what he was made of. Just because I'm small and scared which makes me looks sweet and sad....don't let that fool you. Don't worry, not even for a moment. Ok, I lie :)

The looks he gave me were just so precious.